THE BODY SHOP hates black people and black hair
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Hi Lovelies,
Hi lovelies in this video i demo the body shop replenishing shea shampoo, conditioner and hair mask. Needless to say despite my previous free advice to body shop on their products for 4a 4b 4c type hair they still decided to instead of taking aboard my advice to remove me from their pr twice in 2 years. In their Scandinavian PR list, there is only one black influencer in contract to the hundreds of white influencers. when I challenged them on the matter they claimed they had enough diversity. Now I am not one to mince on my words and I don't care who has me on PR lists. I would rather buy my own products and test them for you and tell you the truth.
Anyway enjoy the video and my views on their useless hair products for black hair.
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The sad part is that the body shop doesn't pay fair wages to shea farmers in ghana. Instead the give out loans with high interest rates to farmers, so the farmers can expand their shea farm. The dark truth is that the body shop requires the farmers to only sell shea to them(for a low price), thus making them unable to get buyers who would pay more. But the worst part is that the high interest on loans is a trap deliberately made by the body shop.
The farmers can't pay off the debt, which means that they can't escape the unjust contract disguised as a charity.
Source: I am Ghanaian and my uncle's village is in the northern part of ghana where this takes place.
Ipawa Ndume Nabigah you know what this is absolutely disgusting. I read up on this last week and couldn’t believe it and to have it confirmed yet again is just heartbreaking. They paint themselves out as angels helping Africa yet use this tactic to monopolize Shea at a high cost for the farmers :(
Wooooow!!!! We need to spread this news! Fair trade my back foot!!!!!! Tweet it and hashtag them and @ them we HAVE to! Im disgusted! Body shop is cancelled
I am writing a PM about CSR and I was wondering if you had a published source I can reference to in my text, consigning them exploiting the farmers in Ghana.
Thanks for letting us know.... fuck body shop from now.
I had no idea about this. So sad.
As soon as I heard her say "Listen, yeah" at the beginning, I knew major tea was about to be spilled
😂😂😂😂😂💁🏾♀️
Can we just cancel the body shop please this is ridiculous 🙄
I may be white and those products may be produced for people like me, but I can promise you all that those products aren’t good for 1a-2b hair either! They may not be as destructive as for 3b-4c hair, but they’re not good for ANY hair. I grew up using those sulfate and silicone based type of products on my 2a hair most of my life and though my hair was okay until I tried using hair products from a black hair care brand and it has made my hair healthier and shinier than it has ever been in my life! I would never go back to those harsh shampoos and silicone based conditioners ever again. It’s a total scam and makes your hair dirty and lifeless so you have to keep washing your hair every other day to keep it clean. 😒
Ps. You can add me to the list of people boycotting the Body Shop.
I second this!
Although I like their banana shampoo, I only use it from time to time, when I want something that smells a bit nicer. But my skin can't handle so much fragrance, or their potential allergenes.
I loved using their ginger shampoo, since it was the only product that helped with my allergenes (how ironic), but my hairdresser was shocked, when she saw how dry my hair was.
I switched to an ultra sensitive shampoo from the drugstore, that contains no fragrance, alcohol, etc, and a normal conditioner/hair mask.
My scalp and my hair are perfectly fine now, and all products together cost around 10€.
Which brand do you ladies use ??? I want something not as harsh for my hair. I have thyroid problems so my hair is naturally thin and dry. Any tips will help. Thank you!
@@phuketufc1746 If you live in Europe (or have the.chance to get these products) you might want to check out Balea and alverde, if you have a dm somewhere.
They have a wide range of hair products, and a very good quality. Their organic line, alverde, do a lot of charity, and try to produce as much as possible fair trade. Everything I tried from them is amazing, and they even have a Body Butter like TBS has (but with better ingredients and waaaay cheaper, around 4€)!
I switched to Balea, due to allergic reactions, and use the Ultra Sensitive Shampoo, and the Conditioner and Mask from their Beautiful Long Series.
They also have products for curly hair, allthough I am not shure, that it will be enough for tight curls.
Other than that, I heard good things from Aubrey Organics (I guess an american brand), haven't heard from anyone that doesn't like it!
Nothing but is a good product it’s expensive and always hidden
@@finyafuxfell3031 thank you so much !!:))) I will definitely be looking into them !! Thank you again for replying!
I knew it was a scam. I saw it advertised in a London store. I just walked straight past it. I knew it was full of ish. I knew it. They know nothing about black people's hair and skin. Nor do they want to know.
Mlina Witchell why would they its alien them.......
Mlina Witchell Was the Body Shop only soley advertising their products only perspecifically targeted towards and for only black people? Anita Ruddock first developed 'The Body Shop' Product Concept of using Natural Ingredients. Do you know how she eventually sold her Company (shares to her Comoany) or who to., or why or how? Was it a Brain Hemorrage or something else, another condition labelled 'Hepatitis' which Anita eventually died from? Why are those facts relevant to that Video? The products sold in 'The body Shop' were not for specifically targeting Black peoples Hair types product selling to only that group, they sold mostly skin care products and make up products and possibly hair products for all hair/skin types, perfumes for all groups of people regardless of Ethnic Origins. As the intention of that was to promote Natural Products wherever they were being sources from. Is that a too much of a simplified explanation or too stupid a Comment?
Maria Maria no ones about to try to understand your disheveled ass comment. Even if she (Anita) didn’t cater to blacks solely the shit should have been for everybody period. I don’t buy it and never have.
@@karla.karlaabbott3254 why wouldn't they? Do you have any idea how large the market is for black hair care products is?
@@karla.karlaabbott3254 So why make a product for it
I am a black man and because of you, I will no longer step a foot into a The Body Shop! Thank you😘
The body shop is officially cancelled. They will not see 1 more penny from me
A few Ghanaian companies that sell authentic shea butter and other products:
-Skin Gourmet
-Nokware skin
-Kaeme
-Uhair
-Freya Living
-Luxmore (London based)
-Tama beauty
Thank you I was about to buy the body shop but now I won't
I haven't shopped at body shop in years. Their products are of very low quality for what they charge.
They charge a lot of money whew
I live in Chicago but I ONLY buy from the African store on 79th. They’ve been here for decades & are genuine/kind Africans w/the purest quality of foods/products! I pray over their store very often and pray they continue/expand their business. They never close the shop when the owners travels back to his home land. They’re truly a blessing. Never buy crap from the beauty supply stores or Amazon.
Redsak Media man you can stfu too. Both of you are ignorant. Africans aren’t perfect, or else they would’ve made profit in their OWN land.
Redsak Media he clearly implied that Chicago is dangerous, even though there are 13 cities w/higher murder stats than ours. It’s statistically proven that the murder rates have slightly decreased in Chicago. The media shows you what they want to show you, because they know that your lazy ass won’t do your own research.
@@kay-ty5rx I know a student from Chicago and he said that the media loves to make Chicago out to be like the wild west with gunfights going on every day, but he said it's pretty quiet except in known areas of violence and those areas exist in all major cities. We talked about how there are smaller towns/suburbs with shootings, stabbings, arson, drugs, gang activity, etc., but the news just wants to focus on 'urban inner city' areas and we all know why.
So glad I never buy from body shop. Never appealed to me.
I tagged them and shared your video on Twitter.
That's just shameful. They love using these African women and communities. #thebodyshopcancelled
New form of slavery... DISGUSTING!!!!!!! They are CANCELLED PERIODT!!!
I love the body shop, but after watching this I'm so disappointed. Thank God you made this video otherwise I wouldn't have known any of this.
This my be a bit of topic but a few months ago I had a job interview at the body shop. Everything went great. Until the manager told me I didn't get the job. I asked why but the manager didn't give any specific reasons why. Only because of the hours I chose ( it's for a part time job). I told them I can do more hours and more days but they said no. So their job description was a bit deceiving. Anyway. I noticed that there were no people of colour that worked there and I was the only black person in the shop but I didn't think too much on it. Then I realized that all of the body shops iv went to around my area dont have any black people work there. So that's got me thinking differently about them now.
Miah G Corporate was the same, a lot black people in the "back office" or support roles only.
Literally in Canada here in my town in Brandon they have NO BLACK PEOPLE
Same here in Holland.
I applied for a marketing job once at Body shop. I really fitted the job, but was declined as well.
That's how they discriminate. You are qualified, interview went great, you are willing and ready to work, you have what they are looking for, but some how still didn't cut it. Guess you weren't a "good fit" MECHEW. Better you don't work there anyways girl.
I went to a body shop in Egypt once. The moment l walked in an overly nice lady started trailing me. Ohhk she is a sales assistant doing her job but what soon annoyed me was every product l touched to look at she would always chip in and say “works very well good for skin will lighten your skin”... this happened more than 4 times with every skin product l touched. I moved and started looking at body butters but she kept grabbing face washes, oils and masks and kept repeating the same words. At some point l stopped and looked at her and told her straight up l was not looking to lighten my skin and lm quite happy with my complexion. Needless to say l walked out without buying anything. I was soo offended that she thought telling a product would “help lighten my skin” was such a brilliant selling point that she kept repeating it over and over again
I live in sweden and just the other day I walk in to the store and saw the new products and I thought it was amazing that they have created something to everybody, but wow when I see this video now I am shook and I will never support this brand more. This is racism.
panda panda don`t always what these youtubers say. They can be solving personal issues, I konow for a fact
Samma
@@moaastrom7408 hejsan hoppsan
You’re so gullible. You really can’t trust the internet. What works for others might not work for you and you should definitely not trust youtubers.
“I don’t want to be in your stupid PR” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You got That right. From New York, it’s cancelled for me.
When I was around 11/12 my mum told me not to buy from The Body Shop and I never knew why... now I know!
I’ve got wavy/ curly hair (2c-3a) and although I DEFINITELY dont know the struggle of type 4 hair, my hair is naturally so so sooooo dry since my dad had more type 3, course hair. So many shampoos and conditioners ruin my hair and make it look all dry, kind of straw like and even ruin the cute curls around the front of my face 😭
saddie sinclaire
The realism from this video 🙆🏾♀️ you are brutally honest. We need that more tbh
Why is this not going viral , stay woke folks smh.....Thats so upsetting.
thank you for speaking about this. their makeup is bloody atrocious to fair girls with pink undertones and all black people. their haircare is so damaging, i mean, sodium laureth sulfate? it’s insane. all they cater to is fair yellow undertoned girls with straight/sleek hair.
Corporatism ruins everything. The bodyshoo is not what it was back in the day.
The Body Shop completely went to hell after Anita Roddick sold to L'Oreal.
I used to buy a few things from Body Shop about 30 years ago when I lived in NYC bc it seemed unique and not commercial. Have not bought anything from there in over 20 years, and now I know I NEVER will again!
And i was so upset because they didnt wanna hire me... Never mind Body Shop, not interested anyway
When the owner died it all went to hell.
indoora god bless her soul
Girl do you realize you might've totally ended a big company!
This just shows that everyone has some purpose and even a UA-cam creator can make a statement that has a big potential.
If this goes viral, you changed the world even if it's only a small impact or if it is a big impact, it counts.
Congrats!
Lol they don't like black pipul, and the resources they are using are black owned resources, to even stand the company they have, if it wasn't for shea butter ( black pipul) , where would they be
This is outrageous, and it striked me that in France (my country) I also saw only white influencers going to Ghana. I didn't think anything of it, but you've made me realize it so thank you.
I'm white but I have pretty coarse hair so I'm always looking for good products because I have very long hair. You talked about black-owned companies that make hair products for all types of hair. Do you think maybe you can name a few companies? I'd rather support them by buying their product than paying for those terrible, abusing companies.
Camilla Rose is a good one and Cantu is good too and deva curl too
Aunt jackie, shea moisture
I use Cantu and shea moisture and I buy it all online. I'm half French half Moroccan so I have very long wavy/curly, prone to frizz hair.
But I was born and raised in Britain so I don't know if Amazon in France sells Cantu or shea moisture?
And always check the ingredients whether its skincare or haircare!
She stated them in the Description bar and featured some in the video as well...
@@animekkgjgirl Anime Their comment was posted 3 days prior to you leaving this response. Maybe Lovette didn't add them when they first posted the comment......
Honestly I find it so hard to trust these “natural” “inclusive” and “ethical” high street brands. It’s always the same - stuff always comes out about them.
So I’m not at all surprised about this.
I tried the banana hair shampoo and conditioner and I've never seen my hair so unmanageable! I had to throw the whole product away, not for Type 4 hair 😱 I only stick with products made by us for us now ♥️
I’m white and would never use any of their hair products face yes
This should go viral. If they are not catering for our black needs then they should stop marketing for us, with our images. I would like your opinion on the SheaMoisture brand.
Im so glad I saw this video because I was just going to make an order. They’ll never get a cent out of me! As an African, it’s tiring to see all these companies stealing our resources and never giving back. So sorry this happened to you.
So eye-opening. Bye bye, Body Shop! Never buying your trash again. I’m not even black but I’m switching to black-owned companies. Thank you!
The hair mask didn't do anything for my dark blonde, dry 1A type hair either, it just sat on top of the hair strands. Their hair products are just not designed for any type of problematic hair. It's a gimmick.
I'm not black myself, but my hair just so happens to be curly/frizzy and dry to deal with so I stayed away from any body shop products. I'm so sorry you went through this disrespect, this makes me sick to my stomach to hear. the world is so cruel, I just wish everyone was excepting of the beautiful diversity people of many races and colors have to offer it makes me upset 😞
It used to be different back in the day when the founder was alive and the CEO of the company... They were heavily invested in improving the farmers' lives by paying fairly for their shea. Since loreal has taken over, it has never been the same...I stopped buying anything from them. I rather order from the farmers directly and I'll gladly pay customs for fresh shea that gets farmer's children to go to school and help out their businesses.
THEY NEED TO BE CAREFUL... SHOPS CLOSING ALL THE TIME NOW..... THEY NEED TO STEP THERE GAME UP..BYE BODY SHOP...
I used a body shop body gel from that before but that's all I bought from them. Glad you made this video. I'm only a minute into it but I already know it's going to be extremely informative. btw you're literally gorgeous!
I only buy my hair products from Afro shops or I diy them 😅🤷 I don't trust those other companies that only now try to target our hair needs
K K right!? I’m only half African and yet I had to cut my hair short and restart because of companies labelling stuff “for dry, frizz prone hair” etc. and not being nearly moisturising enough for my hair. Ridiculous.
Lord, I don't even understand whyyy this video was uplpaded. Like sis, dark n lovely has been around for decades why not try to strike deals with them even?
K K if youre buying it, you dunno what went in it. Diy is best save your coin
Welcome to my DIY world as I stopped supporting people who not bothered about my brownself!
Have to buy it from the usual South Asian guy here in London. Sad how the products that us Black people use aren’t even sold by black people. Again another race profiting off us.
I’m not shallow, but I’m 7 seconds in, and I can’t stop marveling at how gorgeous you are.
Ok, I’m going to resume play and listen to the knowledge now.
Stay beautiful! ❤️👸🏾
Recently I purchased three items from the body shop. And I did have a bit of concern regarding how true it is that this company genuinely contributes fair wages to the women and humble people from Ghana. And after watching this I'm very disappointed about this brand. I won't be purchasing from them any more. I'll be purchasing from only black owned companies.
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I’m white but I don’t want to buy from anyone that treats people as products or uses them as facades of diversity. That’s exploitation. Thank you for this video. I sincerely appreciate your educating me.
Hi lovelies in this video i demo the body shop replenishing shea shampoo, conditioner and hair mask. Needless to say despite my previous free advice to body shop on their products for 4a 4b 4c type hair they still decided to instead of taking aboard my advice to remove me from their pr twice in 2 years. In their Scandinavian PR list, there is only one black influencer in contract to the hundreds of white influencers. when I challenged them on the matter they claimed they had enough diversity. Now I am not one to mince on my words and I don't care who has me on PR lists. I would rather buy my own products and test them for you and tell you the truth.
Anyway enjoy the video and my views on their useless hair products for black hair.
Here are companies i reccomend all black owned. First up is Shea butter cottage! www.sheabuttercottage.com/home.php
Another one which I have a demo coming up. healthythickercurls.com/?v=7516fd43adaa
auntjackiescurlsandcoils.com
Jallow jari!!!!!!
Only one black person on their PR list was enough to consider it diversity. Wow. Do you know if they have other people of colour on their list too or was it that one black person that made their list diverse enough for them? SMH.
Anyway, just threw their stuff away. I didn’t even know they had hair care products for black hair but I used to buy their body butter and also tried an under eye serum and a facial moisturiser from them. I loved their body butter but the other stuff just did not work and then later found out that the ingredients they used in their moisturiser were comedogenic ... so.
Anyway, thanks for your brutally honest review. I didn’t even know any of that stuff was happening behind the scenes, and it makes me really sad and disgusted. It makes me want to open up my eyes to other companies whose products I might also have used but behind the scenes are deceptive in their branding or community trade or fair trade claims. So thank you for shedding the light on them and keep up the great work 😊
Being white and will still stay away from bodyshop - cuz my money dont deserv that kind of treatment either ;)
Im white and that shampoo made my hair and scalp so dry I got some sort of “blisters” (not really like a blister but that’s the closest way I can explain it) in my scalp. My scalp was so dry, irritated and itchy. A big no no
I'm honestly so sad. Coz I've worked so hard at the body shop to promote these products every day and you have just opened my eyesxx
This makes me even more happy to not support the Body Shop. I am currently using Akoma skincares african black soap. Do you know if they are OK or Not? I have looked around a bit and what I can find seems legit but it's hard to be sure.
Oohh what are the benefits from the African black soaps??
Omg I buy Akoma african black soap too🙌🏾 I’ve been buying there soaps for like 4 years now. It’s the only brand that doesn’t sting my skin x
That was an eye opener, I guess those masks aren't doing much for anyone if it doesn't sink into the hair! I am white but have dark, curly (3a hair is maybe the closest I can find) which has been super dry my whole life and on top I have bleached and dyed so many colours that it's really damaged now. Would the same hair products you use that work, potentially work for me too?
P.S. If they're lying about helping communities in Ghana, this doesn't work for decent white people either.
a moisturizing shampoo and rinse out conditioner will definitely work better because you have curly hair. you might want to experiment with light weight leave ins but the oil might be too heavy for you.
This can't be good for any hair type, not even type 1A. BAD BAD
I was open to try their products and decided to do research by watching reviews and I came across your video.
Thank you.
Tbs is a scam and greenwashing company. Now I’ve got one more reason to boycott them. Thank you Lovette, you truly does help people
You are the only person that I know that gives us the truth and not trying to sugar coat the product. Thank you for telling us the truth and I will be following you.
I never buy from liars thank you so much for this video I'll never buy from the body shop
Tbh I've never even considered buying their hair products as I knew it wasn't for black people or their make up. I have brought their shower gels when they have a sale on. But in support of what you have said, yep they are cancelled. Thanks very much for the info. New subbie.
You taught me how to pronounce “Shea” :) I love your energy and passion. I stopped shopping at Body Shop years ago after breaking out in Urticaria ;c Everyone in this world should love each other. And get along. And these companies do need to try harder. Ps. Your hair is fantastic!! :)
Very true!! Black MUA told me this about 6 years ago. This is very known and they subprime loans (charge very high interest rates for black farmers) its the culture of banks lending and black loaners which is illegal in America but the practice is very much still present especially in homes. Which is why the wealth gap (assets) between blacks and whites is so damn large.
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Wow - I just found your channel! You are so beautiful! I’m from Ivory Coast and a believer in SB, body and hair. The Body Shop can’t even make good hand creams that moisturize your hands more than 5 minutes, I never go there. These mall brands are so used to doing the minimum they don’t realize the game has changed. Customers are really demanding: knowing the components, knowing the active ingredients, how ethical and sustainable it is , and finally who represents the products and how is it done. It’s a lot of work and many drop the ball because they are lazy or afraid when for the first time in our history, they can just contact actual “diverse” groups to get the facts.
Once again, the magnificent Lovette Jallow educates and makes us all better people and better alllies! I never knew about the 4c classification, but I do now! And no, I never bought anything at the Body Shop, but I know others who do, and I will tell them about this. Exploitation of consumers, unfair, deceptive marketing using Ghanaian/African women, and should be reported! Thank you Ms. Jallow!
Damn body shop, disappointing as hell. This company is canceled for me! Ain’t buying nothing from them again!!
From danmark body shop is cancelled SMFH😤
Yasss girl også mig!
From Holland!! Klar! Done! Færdig!!
I'm so Happy you did this video. 2 years ago I had severe acne which left me with marks so I went to a body shop store and just asked the lady advice about product that could remove my scars and marks and she looked me straight in the eyes and sayed marks can't go and that they didn't have anything for "me". I was so chocked and that was the last time I went to body shop. So I totally agree they don't do products for us and don't care.
Keep shining tho , love x
Thank you for the video! This is such a disappointment, and I didn't know how they were sourcing their "fair trade" ingredients until you pointed it out. I'll have to do more research on fair trade claims moving forward. Not shopping from them again.
Lovette you are absolutely right about all of this, and of course people deserve to get products that works for their hair ❤️
I personally have face lotions, hand lotion and one lipstick from body shop, and I regret spending money there now.
Body shop is canceled.
Greetings from 🇩🇰
Sister you are beautiful and firm in where you stand. I love it. Glad you exposed The Body Shop.
And omg I bought the shampoo of that Ghanain brand last year. I only used it once so far. But it was soooo moisturizing and gave me definition and so much SLIP! im glad i could support them✊✊✊
Thank you for this video content. I used to shop at body shop years ago but stopped until a friend gifted me with a body shop butter cream. I was planning to start shopping at the store again, that was until I saw your video! Thank you!
I really appreciate you sharing this. Thank you for showing the body shop's dark side. I love you so much because it really forces me to think, but also realize what I as a white woman can do, both that it's so easy to make wrong choices like giving money to the excluding and racist companies but also what I can help with. You are such an inspiring person keep up the good work
U go sis. Solidarity ✊🏿
They're owned by l'oreal what more do you need to know
Sophia Reinheimer not anymore. They’ve been re sold
The Body Shop was sold by L'Oreal in 2017 to Natura & Co which is a Brazilian company.
Not anymore we’re not
I have been buying bodyshop for years as they are cruelty free. But after watching this video I’m going to stop purchasing and look more into their business practice going forward, thank you for the video!
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I’ve always been a Body Shop fan. Never tried their hair care range because I’ve always known it’s not for my hair but I do enjoy their face care lines. I have sensitive skin and I’ve always found that their skin care works for me. But they’re cancelled now. Particularly after reading some of the comments about how they treat Ghanaian farmers. I’ve been gradually transition a lot of my hair care over to lack owned only. I’ll start doing the same for skincare and then make up. I’m fed up of hearing horror stories about these white owned companies. Time to start investing in our own!
Thank you for this video Lovette. I live in Stockholm and I don’t like the body shoo products too perfumy for me. It is high time we black people buy products from Black owned company like Camille rose, Alikay Naturals etc because they care about our hair and skin.
Alikay all the way❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I've stopped using body shop along time ago. I have naturally curly indian hair, and I've tried using their hair products and not only was it insanely expensive, but it just dried it out. Not surprised. Thank you for posting this
Wow, thanks a lot for this video! ❤️ I will never ever buy anything from Body Shop after what you've shared here. Not as long as they exclude people of colour like this. I will share this further, people need to know what Body Shop really are!
Your passion and honesty is EXACTLY what's needed by more people to shed light on a highly problematic issue. Thank you! 👏🏾✊🏾
Body Shop was much better way back.
Now they have been bought by L’Oreal and recently a brazilian brand bought them.
I remember i corresponded w them ab paraben in their products some years ago. They both greenwash and use black women posing to make them look inclusive etc.
What a load of bullocks!!
The body shop hasn’t been owned by L’Oréal since 2016. They’re owned by some “natural” company now. It seems like that is the one pulling the strings ...
Wow! I'm so happy to have stumbled across your content. As another black woman in Sweden there has always been issues finding products suitable for my hair texture. Luckily though I live in city where there are many local (and usually black owned) businesses offering hair products that actually work for me.
I'm happy you're bringing this up since I feel there is a lack of black influencers in Scandinavia (or perhaps I'm ignorant to their existence) and Sweden really need to improve their diversity in many beauty related areas. I had such a hard time finding a foundation before Fenty Beauty, same thing goes for powders or anything related to my skintone. I'm not even that dark, the issue however is mainly that they don't distribute their POC products in physical stores making harder to find your match. This has at least been in my experience. As someone who loves makeup it pains me to have to wait until they stock or restock products in my skintone since there are many black people here even if larger companies choose to ignore that.
And their products are expensive... thank God I never buy from them!!! And will never purchase their products! Thanks for this video! #blackisbeautiful
Right when she said the shea butter was made in Thailand I started laughing. Those people don’t know how to make it leave it the the Africans. Omg 😂 I feel her pain now.
Where can I find the links to the black owned companies?
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I know this is off topic; but your makeup game in this video is so on POINT! Just so natural & BEAUTIFUL.
I’ve never really trusted hair products that aren’t recommended to me by a professional (like my hairdresser). Tbh I didn’t really know that body shop sold hair products, I always thought they only sold skin products, I’ve never been able to actually look in the store since I’m extremely sensitive to perfume. For me a company that is most known for skin products I would never really trust that their shampoo/conditioner actually works well. I think they should stick to skin care products and not hair products..
"My mouth cannot be sponsored" - Good on you!
Wow. This made me lose appetite for Body Shop products for sure... Love your hair btw! I've wanted hair like yours since I was a teenager. Jealous!
I live in the U.S and I haven’t shopped at The Body Shop since childhood but someone gifted me the Shea butter and a lip balm for the holidays and that shit SUCKED! I have 4c hair and try to buy Black as much as possible so thanks for putting us on Queen!
Nagadef my sistah , I totally understand you. Until Africans living on the continent and diaspora come together. We will continue to be a community that no one truly respect. Btw, love your🔥🔥 .
Wow I’m going to start deeply deeply research all the products I use on my hair and body now because this is absolutely ridiculous. I’m sorry you even had to put this stuff on your hair for our education but we appreciate you!
NEVER trusted their hair product,something just told me it's all crap.
So glad I saw your post I was about to buy those products because they said it was for dry damaged hair and I was thinking I would be helping women in Africa thanks for the information you saved me a lot of time and money
Hi Lovette, we’d like the opportunity to address some of issues you raise in your video. You mention the recent press and influencer trip we took to Ghana. If you’ve been able to look at some of the responses from those who came with us to Ghana, you would have seen that we had a diverse range of participants on that trip, from all over the world, including Brazil, India, Malaysia and Indonesia. They had the chance to meet and speak extensively to the women of the co-operative we work with there. We believe that businesses have a responsibility to use trade to make a positive difference in the world, that’s why we created our Community Trade programme, our own independently verified fair trade sourcing programme. Through this programme (which is more than 30 years old), we work with many local communities who don’t usually have access to the global market or the opportunity to expand their supply chains so widely. We’ve been working with the Tungteiya Women’s Association in northern Ghana for 25 years and we have a strong and deep relationship with them. This is something we’re very proud of. We would like to be clear: we pay a fair price for our butter to the women’s cooperatives who make up the association. This price is agreed and updated regularly with Tungteiya to ensure it is fair and covers all relevant costs, plus profit for them. And in addition, for those communities in greater need, we pay a premium fund on top of the fair price. This is part of our trade agreement since 1994 with Tungteiya. This additional premium helps Tungteiya’s social fund invest in community projects like healthcare, sanitation, water, education, environmental protection and community awareness that benefit over 49,000 people in the wider communities every year. They make their own decisions on how to spend the premium fund each year. Premium money is also used for business development and business management projects for the capacity building of the women’s cooperatives, defined by them according to their own needs. It’s also important to state that we have never loaned money to any communities or individuals in Ghana. Regarding the packaging of our Shea Butter, we use a company in Thailand, where the shea butter is heated up and then filled into the pouches. This is the only work that’s done in Thailand. There is no addition of ingredients and no additional testing at this stage (apart from the usual Quality Control). We’re sorry to hear you found our products less effective than you had hoped for. The Shea hair care range is formulated for dry, prone to damage hair, therefore we tested our products on a diverse range of hair textures, including afro hair. We’d like the opportunity to talk more with you about our Shea range and how we do business. We have contacted you to give you the opportunity to speak directly with the community in Ghana, and we look forward to hearing back from you in response to our emails.
/Madeleine, The Body Shop
@thebodyshop Hi, thank you for your response. I already am in contact with a few women from the co-operative and although much of the information received doesn’t correspond with your reply I will make it my duty to get to the bottom of it. As much as I appreciate your reply I do also have quite a few rebuttals that I will send over to your team in Sweden and it includes but isn’t limited to “issues of discrimination of your black and poc employees in stores in Sweden, lack of range in products for black consumers, lack of representation in you PR, websites and communications. For a company that claims diversity the scope of that diversity is very limited to stereotypical white saviour images of black and African women not to mention the critique from the people on the ground in Ghana for example. My critique stated in my UA-cam video still stands and thus far has not been disproved by your company. I appreciate straight forward answers backed up with facts and thus far all I have received is smoke and mirrors and words such as “fair” and “room for profits” which is not only vague but open to interpretation. What you consider fair and with room for profits is based on a western idea of what African women deserve and not an actual reflection on the work they are undertaking in correlation to the profits your company is making off their backs. I will formulate my points concisely and send you a copy as well as the Swedish team. Because whilst you may not have to answer to your client base I OWE it to my community to shed light on what fair trade truly means in practice. Thank you for your time
Ps. I am working and haven’t had the chance to reply to the emails. The emails which in effect have not countered anything I brought up in this video. An invitation for me to speak with your team requires an emotional labour as a result of communicating with the body shop sweden repeatedly with a non positive response or appreciation. So for me to take time out of my schedule to AGAIN write and explain the points I already raised in this video is something your company will need to be patient with. I am already in contact with some of the persons down in Ghana and would gladly speak to the persons you can put me in contact with as well for a well rounded view and an update video will be released following this one.
What alot of companies don't want to say is that they are fearful their white customers will stop shopping with the company if they are seen promoting black women especially. The idea that black women produce products for whites is however more safe. I don't shop at bodyshop anyways. Their products are cheap and gimmicky and aimed at a certain type fake woke consumer. I agree that they made better products in the past.
this bad very bad..body shop is where i buy all my products.living in switzerland can be hard.but hey drug stores and bio stores.what shame!.goodbye my beloved😢
I’m subscribing because ur energy and passion is💯💯💯💯💯💯. Love u queen🥰🥰🥰
Love the honesty, I will never buy anything from them they're trash and have always made false claims. Their face cream gave me full blown acne a few years ago!
I’m from Asia, and I can’t find anything for curly hair in the market. When The Body shop started promoting these products, I thought maybe I could finally have something for my hair. Still a little doubt, but quite hopeful. And... luckily I found your video first. Thank you
I'm glad that you speak up about this matter.. Black people have been manipulated and lied to for ages and I believe if we want a change we should expose these hyprocites to create awareness in our community. And eventually support black own companies to take the lead..I had been contacting black owned companies to get in touch with there products and surely I will continue to support..Thank you Lovette once again for creating such an educative content for us the Black People.. Much appreciated keep it up😊
Thanks!! I just discovered this brand and I NEEDED this video!!! I felt something was wrong in there. Love from Spain 💕
Wow...I see this on my recommendation right after buying their products..
Just bought their shea butter 😭 I'm angry
You are so right!!!! Its really a shame these companies have to better their products. Why have a company if its not real to their clients.
Thank you for bringing this out.....I left them alone in 2006 for anything other than air fresheners.
SPILL THE TEA SIS! I’m sharing this immediately
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This is so important. I learned and have used The Body Shop products since the 80 's when I was a teenager. I am stunned at this revelation.
Jag hade ingen aning om det här, I was ignorant to the truth and honestly believed The Body Shop was a great company seeing them work with products containing such rich and nourishing ingredients I did not for one second take into account that the influencers I’ve seen talking about the Body Shop here in Sweden are all white. Snacka om att vara förblindad av sitt eget privilege. Thank you for enlightening about this issue. Going forward I won’t be buying any more products from the Body Shop but instead seek skincare products elsewhere from shops that truly value diversity.
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These lies they tell are ridiculous and they should be called out for it. There are so many brands out there claiming to have product for all types of curly hair but they don’t even work on my 2c hair, lets stand to the kinds they claim to work on.
Even “pro’s” don’t know what they’re doing. I used to go to a hair dresser who turned out to have completely ruined my hair. Switching to a Moroccan hairdresser (whos specialized in curly/African hair) turned out to be the best decision ever.
Body shop has never been about blacks, they do source black products from the Africa continent and carribeans which the dilute so badly but BODY SHOP ABOUT BLACK? 😂😂😂👀😂 that's a laugh and I live in UK, home of bishops in every corner. I do like their body scrub back in the day but everyone do it now cheaper, and better but make-up from bodyshop? No thank you, I'd rather put charcoal on my face. Do bother.